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Everyone loves cupcakes, and this recipe should be no exception unless you have some kind of peanut butter phobia these will melt in your mouth. Have a glass of milk handy while eating these cupcakes because you’ll definitely want to quench your thirst after eating them.

For cupcakes: Mix flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. In a separate bowl mix butter, peanut butter and brown sugar until blended. Add vanilla and egg. Add milk and flour mixture alternately while still mixing. Pour into lined cupcake pan and bake at 350* for 20 minutes, or until toothpick comes out almost clean.

For Ganache: Melt chocolate and cream in metal bowl set in simmering water.

For Frosting: Beat peanut butter and vanilla until blended. Add 3 tbsp milk and sugar while beating. Add the rest of the milk and sugar and beat until smooth. If needed, add a couple more tbsp milk.

Apple Hand Pies|This Is Why I’m Full

These Apple Hand Pies were so much fun to make! We used Granny Smith apples and they tasted delicious! I think they would be better if I had sliced the apples thinly instead of just slicing them into 8 pieces and doing it that way! Maybe make it more like apple pie filling instead of just using big pieces, I think they might have baked better. I also would probably go with a different kind of apple, the Granny Smith were a little too sharp for how little sugar we used in these.

These Apple Hand Pies are great for brunch, or as a make ahead breakfast or snack.. Or dessert. Or anything really, they would be delicious for every single meal. Pack them as a work snack, or in your lunch as a little homemade dessert if you eat a real lunch at work/school. They really are delicious, the Hubby and I ate them for dessert for 4 or 5 days until they weren’t good anymore, and even then I was very sad that we couldn’t eat all of them before they started to turn.

There are a lot of options for what you want to use for the crust on these, you can go simple and use either Crescent rolls or refrigerated Pie Crust, or if you have the time and energy, make a good ol’ fashioned homemade pie crust and cut it into triangles, the Hubby and I were short on time when we made these, so we went simple and just used crescent rolls that we had in the fridge (a leftover can from our delicious Chicken Broccoli Crescent Roll Bake) but if we made them again I think I would go with a from scratch crust, I love me a good pie crust!

If you decide to make your crust from scratch I recommend cutting them with a pizza wheel, it is very nice to be able to just slice into strips/triangles and wrap them up, and using a knife is much harder to control the shape!

Let us know what you think of our Apple Hand Pies and comment below with any questions/suggestions! Be sure and sign up for our Newsletter where we will be posting and sending out recipes we are going to make and giving you the opportunity to give us suggestions for what we should make next! Enjoy!

French Toast is one of my favorite foods, it’s so simple and always tastes great! Pancakes and Waffles are very sweet in general, even before you add syrup and/or powdered sugar (or whatever you like on your pancakes!). One of the reasons I like French Toast so much is that you can make it just as sweet as you like! Plus you can eat it without syrup if you want and you are basically just eating eggs and buttered toast!

This french toast is especially delicious because the Hubby made the bread from scratch! (you can find the recipe here: Homemade French Bread) it’s a really simple recipe, easy to follow and successful every time that we have tried it so far! (Which is a lot, in a lot of variations! I’m most excited to share our Blueberry Swirl bread with you, it’s A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!) I know what you’re thinking looking at all of these pictures, why are there so many pictures of the same thing in this post… The answer is… *shrugs* I like to look at them. Look at that melting butter and syrup mixing together, as I sit here with my mouth watering eating my bowl of rice………..

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Okay, so while writing this post I definitely did not stop and go make french toast *wink wink*

I totally did.

Just saying, French Toast is a great choice no matter what time of day it is!

I mean, how could you look at that picture and not want to immediately go and make some?! If you CAN resist…………. You have much better willpower than I.

French Toast | This Is Why I’m Full

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Mini No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecakes | This Is Why I’m Full

Summer sucks for my coworkers and I, we work in a warehouse that has no AC, here in Chico that can mean a lot of hot and muggy days with no relief. Except for when we have Potlucks! (We have a lot of Potlucks!) I brought these delicious little frozen treats to one of these potlucks in the warmer months and they disappeared so fast I almost didn’t get to try my Mini No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecakes myself! The Cool Whip (while not that great for you) means that the other ingredients stay soft enough to eat even when you freeze them overnight, it was wonderful! Now I know, looking at this recipe it makes a LOT of mini cheesecakes, but like everyone’s older relative says, go big or go home! They will keep in the freezer for up to 3 weeks, so why not make a bunch and have them as family dessert multiple times! (Or break that New Year’s Resolution and eat them all yourself, you know you want to!) I am seriously considering making Mini No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecakes again this upcoming summer, they were so simple, not to mention delicious, that I might as well! (not to mention how nice it is to make my coworkers smile in the ghastly heat that we work in!) Also during the summer anything I can make that has the words No-Bake in the title is my new favorite dish! Let us know what you think of our Mini No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecakes and comment below with any questions/suggestions! Be sure and sign up for our Newsletter where we will be posting and sending out recipes we are going to make and giving you the opportunity to give us suggestions for what we should make next! Enjoy!

Oatmeal Butterscotch Chip Cookies | This Is Why I’m Full

I’m sad that the Christmas season is over for one reason, and that reason is cookies. I love cookies. Especially these Oatmeal Butterscotch Chip Cookies, they are something that my Dad makes every year and I can’t express to you my love for them! Chewy, sweet and gooey, they are so amazing. Anyway, so my Dad always makes them, but since the Hubby and I decided to stay home for Christmas this year we were faced with the possibility of not having my favorite cookies! And faced with the choice, the Hubby and I decided that we were going to do our best to mimic the pure Heaven that is the cookies that my dad makes, and while they weren’t perfect by any means, they were pretty darn good for a first try! Let us know what you think of our Oatmeal Butterscotch Chip Cookies and comment below with any questions/suggestions! Be sure and sign up for our Newsletter where we will be posting and sending out recipes we are going to make and giving you the opportunity to give us suggestions for what we should make next! Enjoy!

Scr-Apple Pie | This Is Why I’m Full

I think that this apple pie might be one of my best inventions… I mean really, it’s amazing! So I’m sure you know how it goes, you are making pies for the holidays and you finish all of your pies and have those leftover scraps that you would normally toss! Little pieces of pie crust and leftover apple filling that you can’t do anything with, but as my Grandma says, waste not want not! Instead of tossing those scraps into the trash take them and put them into a pan and bake them!

Do you want to know what the best part of this Scr-Apple Pie is? You don’t have to wait until whichever occasion/holiday you made the other pies for! You can eat it whenever you want! Yummy! The hubby and I hosted Thanksgiving this year, and I was planning on making an Apple pie, but his sister did instead, so we already had the ingredients to make an apple pie, but didn’t make one, so we decided to try making some Apple Pie Cookies (those turned out delicious, keep an eye out for that recipe!) and the leftover scraps from those cookies became our Scr-Apple Pie! Let us know what you think of our Scr-Apple Pie and comment below with any questions/suggestions! Be sure and sign up for our Newsletter where we will be posting and sending out recipes we are going to make and giving you the opportunity to give us suggestions for what we should make next! Enjoy!

Buttermilk Churro Waffles | This Is Why I’m Full

The Buttermilk Churro Waffles recipe has been on my news feed for awhile now and we’ve been wanting to try it. Recently we made Buttermilk Chicken Strips so there was leftover buttermilk. We decided to use the remainder on this waffle recipe! We use King Arthur Flour in our baking recipes, and per their website: here we substituted the milk that the recipe originally calls for with buttermilk and baking soda. It does make for a longer recipe because we have more ingredients but the trade off is delicious Buttermilk Churros. We haven’t made it the “regular” way but we may not, the waffles came out light a fluffy like you’d expect with a buttermilk base. We didn’t let these waffles cool in the slightest when we made them, burned mouth and all they were an amazingly delicious spin on regular ol’ waffles.

Let us know what you think of our Buttermilk Churro Waffles and comment below with any questions/suggestions! Be sure and sign up for our Newsletter where we will be posting and sending out recipes we are going to make and giving you the opportunity to give us suggestions for what we should make next! Enjoy!

In a large bowl, mix together flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda and sugar; set aside. Also at this time you can combine your churro topping and set it aside. Preheat waffle iron

In a separate bowl, beat the eggs. Stir in the buttermilk, butter and vanilla. Pour the buttermilk mixture into the flour mixture; Next fold in three shakes of cinnamon beat until blended

At this time you can also melt your 1/2 cup of butter used to pour over waffles. Next generously spray your waffle iron with no stick cooking spray. Than ladle the batter into a preheated waffle iron. Cook the waffles until golden and crisp. Once fully cooked immediately pour melted butter on each side of the waffle and than dip each buttered side into your cinnamon/sugar churro mixture.

Sriracha Candied Bacon|This Is Why I’m Full

This is a great recipe if you want to spice up your bacon intake. Everyone knows the amazing power that bacon has over your stomach, at least every mans that I’ve met. I’m willing to bet that you haven’t tried this kind of bacon though. The Srirarcha Hot Chili Sauce gives a good hot taste to the bacon. The spread is a sweet and spicy mix that is just perfect for bacon. It may take a bit more time to make than traditional bacon but it is well worth the wait. Plus at the end of making it your entire house will smell amazing.

Let us know what you think of our Sriracha Candied Bacon and comment below with any questions/suggestions! Be sure and sign up for our Newsletter where we will be posting and sending out recipes we are going to make and giving you the opportunity to give us suggestions for what we should make next! Enjoy!

Reheat the spice mixture. If necessary add the water to help make it spreadable.

Spoon or brush the mixture on top of the bacon

Return to the oven and cook for 13 minutes.

If the bacon is not crispy enough (remember it’ll crisp up as it cools), flip the bacon over, spoon any remaining spice mixture and bake for a few more minutes. OR you can broil for 1 minute each side but watch as this will burn.

Remove from the oven, allow to cool 1 minute on the rack and then using cooking tongs, remove the bacon from the rack and plate.

I know, there is a LOT of steps to making cheesecake with raspberry sauce.. But there is only one way to get a good cheesecake and that is to FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS! I have had quite a few disastrous cheesecakes because I thought I would cut corners to save time, and it ends the same way every time, and spoiler alert, it’s not good.. Anyway, I made this cheesecake instead of a birthday cake for myself this year because I don’t like cake! It was amazing, the Hubby and I had a few friends over for the occasion and there was no cheesecake left when they went home and I found that extremely flattering! Let us know what you think and comment below with any questions/suggestions! Be sure and sign up for our Newsletter where we will be posting and sending out recipes we are going to make and giving you the opportunity to give us suggestions for what we should make next! Enjoy!

This Pumpkin Chocolate Chip and Caramel Bars recipe was the Hubby’s brainchild, all I did was eat way too much of it!

Around Thanksgiving Hubby and I bought way too many cans of pumpkin.. (We are broke and they were on sale!) Anyway, we have been trying to find ways to use them ever since.. Pumpkin muffins, cookies, pie, tiny pies, etc. And we finally hit the last can, but we also hit the bottom of our recipe list.. And so the Hubby spent an hour or more looking for something that we hadn’t made, and he found something similar to this. But a lot more difficult, it involved making your own caramel and a bunch of candies and things we couldn’t find. So he tweaked it and made these amazing Pumpkin Chocolate Chip and Caramel Bars, and they were fantastic! Let us know what you think of our Pumpkin Chocolate Chip and Caramel Bars and comment below with any questions/suggestions! Be sure and sign up for our Newsletter where we will be posting and sending out recipes we are going to make and giving you the opportunity to give us suggestions for what we should make next! Enjoy!